News

2023

Paper accepted to the EMNLP 2023 Main Conference

Towards a Better Understanding of Variations in Zero-Shot Neural Machine Translation Performance. Shaomu Tan and Christof Monz. EMNLP 2023.

Paper accepted to the NeurIPS 2023 Main Conference

Make Pre-trained Model Reversible: From Parameter to Memory Efficient Fine-Tuning. Baohao Liao, Shaomu Tan, Christof Monz. NeurIPS 2023.

First place of WMT competition on constrained track of WMT 2023

UvA-MT's Participation in the WMT23 General Translation Shared Task. Di Wu, Shaomu Tan, et al. WMT 2023.

Gold Medal on Kaggle Competition: Google - American Sign Language Fingerspelling Recognition (ranked 11/1,315 teams)

Technical Reort. Baohao Liao and Shaomu Tan.

Education

PhD in Natural Language Processing (2022-2026)

At University of Amsterdam

MSc in Artificial Intelligence (2020-2022)

At Utrecht University

BSc in Information system (2016-2019)

At Shandong University

Teaching

For supervision requests, please get in touch. Project can be related to Multilingual Machine Translation, Multilingual NLP, Deep Learning in NLP.

Student Supervision

  • Jelle van der Lee, Bsc thesis Artificial Intelligence, UvA, 2022
  • Matei Penca, Msc thesis Data Science, UvA, 2023
  • Sotirios Kastanas, Msc thesis Data Science, UvA, 2023

Working Experience

Thesis Intern (Nov 2021 - Jul 2022)

at ABN AMRO Bank N.V.

I finished my master thesis “Towards leveraging latent knowledge and Dialogue context in real-world Conversational Question Answering” at ABN AMRO.

Research Assistant - NLP (May 2021 - Mar 2022)

at Utrecht University

Towards Automated Cognitive Mapping of Political Speeches using Machine Learning

Summer Research Intern - NLP (Jul 2021 - Aug 2022)

at ABN AMRO Bank N.V.

Natural Language Processing (Question Answering) summer research internship at ABN AMRO (Dutch summer of AI project)

Research Intern - Reinforcement Learning (May 2021 - Dec 2021)

at Utrecht University

Project: Can intelligent agents play Minecraft? Developing a hierarchical reinforcement learning agent to play Minecraft.

Research Intern - Data Science (Mar 2021 - Jun 2021)

at Utrecht University

Evaluation for Outlier Detection in Energy Climate Data